It seems that there are many choices when it comes to bedding/litter. Aspen bedding, pine shavings, cedar shavings, corn cob, wood chips, clay, Pelleted Pine Bedding, CareFresh...but what is best for a baby hedgehog? Does an adult need something differant?
2006-08-05 15:06:31 · 4 answers · asked by idle_lurker 1 in Pets ➔ Other - Pets
Stay far away from cedar the oils and odor are deadly to small animals. Pine is cheap and easy to come by not the best, but will work. Corn cob, is not good for baby boys, their boy parts are at the belly button area and the pieces can stuck and be painfully infected. The wood chips are hard to say if they a mix of woods like aspen and pine, and if not cleaned could have mites in them. Pelleted wood is good but hard for babies to walk on more used for a litter box, which hedgies can be trained so you want to invest in a corner box. The care fresh is a awesome bedding more expensive, and you need to clean it a lot, but no bad remarks. Oh, go to the cat litter area some pet stores have small bags with a ferret or hedgie on it and charge the same price for the bigger bag with the cat on it, and keep them separate so you don't notice. As for the the little one grows up you can keep the same litter. Oh handle the baby ALOT they can still turn cranky when they mature, but it might help handle them every day. Good luck I hope this helped.
2006-08-05 15:54:35 · answer #1 · answered by maximus 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try to find one made 4 hedgehogs or ask someone at a pet store.
2006-08-05 22:11:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
aspen or pine, cedar is toxic. Check out http://hedgehogcentral.com
2006-08-05 22:42:42 · answer #3 · answered by KimbeeJ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably pine cause i've always heard that ceder makes some aniamls sick
2006-08-05 22:17:16 · answer #4 · answered by jordy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋